These simple-looking spools are part of a larger tool – a spinning wheel – used to spin sheep ... single strand of twisted fiber (like thread being twisted around a spool).

It’s similar to how a modern spinning wheel works ... actually helped secure the wooden spindle in place. To test their theory about these objects being spindle whorls, the researchers created ...

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan Valley were likely used ... “wheel-and-axle-like device to help the ...

A spinning wheel used by Indian independence leader Mohandas ... Sponsor Message The wheel, being sold at Ludlow Racecourse in Shropshire, England, "folds into a bundle about the size of a ...

and now it turns out that people have been spinning fiber this way since at least 12,000 years ago. It’s not so much that the spindle whorl was the direct evolutionary ancestor of the wheel, the ...

Mullock's auctioneers said the price paid for the spinning wheel had "exceeded expectations" A spinning wheel used by Indian independence ... runs the two wheels and spindle of the device ...

once making a drop spindle from a judge’s gavel, but the uniquely rich history of the charkha spinning wheel and its delightful ability to fold up and hide on a bookshelf piqued my interest anew.

If you're new to the Mac ecosystem (maybe you've recently made the switch from Windows), nobody would blame you for mistaking the friendly-looking rainbow-colored spinning wheel for something benign.